Thursday 4 September 2014

31 Day Challenge - Day 4, Green Nails - Sugar Spun Nails

I've hit the winter blahs, and although I've been doing and even photographing my nails, I haven't posted here for a while.

Chalkboard Nails is doing a 31 day nail art challenge, and I thought I'd kick-start my posting by taking part. Here's the full challenge list:

Day 4 is green nails, so I decided to pull out some polishes from my yet-to-be-used stash and have a go at a technique I've never done before: sugar spun nails. I used this tutorial by The Nailasaurus.

(Speaking of yet-to-be-used stashes - I saw someone proclaim on their blog that they were quite into nail polish, and as proof they offered up the size of their collection: 30 bottles of polish! While I agree that they're definitely a polish fan, I had to laugh, because my yet-to-be-used stash alone is easily over 30 bottles of polish! I know that quite a number of bloggers have multiple helmers full of polish. It's a whole different scale in the nail blogging community, for sure.)

For this manicure, I used a base of Revlon's Emerald City, which has a matte suede finish, and I used Chi Chi's Relax! Don't Do It and Maybelline's Green Park for the sugar spun drizzles.




The good: the texture of these nails is lovely, and I do like the look.
The bad: it took a long time for the polish to become goopy enough to even vaguely form threads, and it still wasn't quite right when I used it, as you can see by the thick lines. It's not exactly sugar-spun, but more of a Jackson Pollock effect. I'm not sure what went wrong (too dry? too wet?), but as a result it took quite a while to dry, and I'm still concerned about sheet marks.



6 comments:

  1. Nice color combo. Sugar spun art takes so long to do. You have great patience :-)

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    1. Thanks! I did them while watching TV, which helps with the patience. :)

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  2. I haven't dont this mani yet. I have tried but yeah something went wrong \: yours is much much better than mine. Way to go :D

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    1. I think some types of polish work much better than others - Green Park was a lot thicker to begin with than Relax! Don't do it!, and it made better threads. I think old gooey polishes may give the best results?

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  3. Gosh, I know what you mean. I love the look of spun sugar polish, but it takes me ages every time- I rarely bother (although knowing myself I'm probably gonna do it at least once this month!

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    1. It is a nice look, and the texture is so tactile! But the dry time was brutal. I'm looking forward to see your take on it!

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